Garment.



G. AJN. COPPEDGE.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 13. 1916. v 1,235,441 Patented July 31, 1917. E9

INVENTOR Gm mzm/vmw pag ATTORN EY GEORGE ALVAI-I 1\l'. GOPPEDGE, 0F WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA.

GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1917.

Application filed October 13, 1916. Serial No. 125,423.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ALVAH N. Corrnnen, a citizen of the United States, residing at Winston-Salem, in the county of Forsyth and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Garment, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to garments, and particularly to upper garments, and is designed to provide a shirt or shirt-waist or like garment with suspending means for nether garments, whereby the weight of the nether garment is carried by the shoulders of the wearer.

For convenience of description the invention will be considered as applied to a mans shirt, although applicable to shirt-waists and the like, and the suspending means will be referred to as suspenders without necessarily limiting such means to the articles ordinarily known as suspenders.

In accordance with the present invention the suspenders are made a permanent part of the shirt and no part of the suspenders is loosely dangling when not fastened to the garment to be sustained.

The shirt is provided on each side with a band of some strong material, such as tape, in encircling relation to a corresponding arm-hole of the shirt, and so spaced therefrom as to pass over the shoulder of the wearer. The ends of the band are brought together at a suitable distance below the arm-hole and there sewed to the body of the shirt for a suitable distance toward the bottom of the shirt. From a point about midway of the arm-hole to a point near where the top of the nether garment reaches, which last-named point may be considered as about coincident with the waist line, the suspending band is free from attachment to the shirt, and is somewhat shorter than the normal length of the shirt between the points named. In this way there is produced a fullness in the shirt so that when a weight is applied to the band at the waist line, such weight is borne entirely by the shoulders of the wearer and the body of the shirt is wholly relieved from the weight. The band where made fast to the shirt adjacent to the waist line is secured flat thereagainst and is provided with a series of buttonholes extending not only through the band, but through the material of the shirt. The band is ap-- plied to the inner face of the shirt, while the buttonholes are accessible through the outer face of the shirt.

It is the common practice with trousers to have buttons on the inner face of the waist band of the trousers, and buttons which are usually located at about diametrically opposite points of the waist band of the trousers may be readily engaged in appropriate ones of the buttonholes. In this way the trousers are sustained in a manner similar to the use of ordinary suspenders, but the suspenders are hidden from sight, being on the inner face of the shirt and the weight is borne entirely by the shoulders of the wearer, while the fullness of the shirt prevents any drawing or puckering.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, with the further understanding that while the drawings show a practical form of the invention, the latter is not confined to any strict conformity with the showing of the drawings, but may be changed and modified so long as such changes and modifications come within the scope of the appended claims;

In the drawings: I

Figure 1 is a view of the inside of a shirt with the invention applied, the shirt being spread open. 7

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1, but drawn on a larger scale and showing a small portion of a nether garment attached to the shirt.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 1 and also showing a small portion of a nether garment.

Fig. 4 is a view showing a strip of tape in position to be sewed into place in the shirt.

Referring to the drawings there is shown a shirt 1 which may be taken as indicative of any type of shirt or shirt-waist and without any attempt to indicate exactitude of proportions. The shirt is provided with sleeves 2 and has armholes 3 where the sleeves join the body of the shirt.

On each side of the shirt there is applied a band at which may be made of tape of suitable width and length and sufficiently strong for the purpose. The tape for a portion of its length somewhat to one side of the mid point of the tape is formed into a loop 5 5 of the hand or tape at will engage the wearer.

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sewed to the shoulder portion the shirt in encircling spaced relation to the r spectivc armhole 3 the spacing being such that when the shirt applied to a wearer, the portion rer and about the shoulder of the wearer and e):- tcnd over the chest and down the hacl; for a short distance, the sewing involving about half the height of the armhole. This leaves two strips 6, '7 oi the tape which carried 1. vs 1 1A2 s1 4- downwardly touaiu the waist line or the shirt and are brought tone I i above the waist line whlre the two o and 7 of the loop 5 A i the body of the shirt, the n or sewing hei. i ps or hands :lv one with respect to the tl e leg "I is shorter than the leg 6 so that it two legs where sewed together overlap r but a relatively short distance the time of the ic 6 havin a continu tion 8 whicl a 1 also sewed to the fabric of t 1e shirt and hay he continued along the underarm sea n of the shirt to the bottom of said seam.

Formed in the ovenappine portions of CD A the legs {3 and 'i and through the corres'ionding portion of the shirt is a button hole 9, while below the outtonhole 9 are other buttonholes 10 formed through the continuation S and the fabric of the shirt. in this manner the huttonholes, which are arranged in upright series, are accessible from the exterior of the shirt and a button 11 in a netl er garment 12 may be readily secured in any one of the huttenholes.

In order to indicate in the drawing where the suspending means is made pernien ntly fast to the shirt. dotted line 13 are used to representthe lines of stitching. The leg portions 6 and T between the loop l and where the leg portions are connected together and to the body of the shirt are loose, but the length of these loose portions is less than the length or" the corresponding portion of the shirt, which portion is indicated at 1%.

When the shirt is put on and the nether garment 12 is also on the wearer the loop :3 ol each hand 4 en ages over the shoulder of Then the buttons 1.1, of which there is assumed to he one on each side or the garment 12-, are engaged in the buttonholes 9 or 10 as may he needed and the weight of the nether garment is then sustained entirely by the loops 5 passing over the shoulders of the wearer and is transmitted through the loose portions of the legs 6 and 7 where unattached to the shirt.

The series or" hut-tonholes 9 and 10 proide for such adjustment as may be needed to accommodate the shirt to people of different heights. in any event the button holes 9 and 10 are arranged at about the waist line, or sulhciently'near thereto so as to sustain the nether garment in the cus t niary pcsitioin and by providing an up right series of huttonholes the needed adjustment customarily provided for by nd the like is present in the garibed. Since the suspending dehucl'le me des i .L i weig it oi tn nether garment he iullness I l danglin or loose ends and no parts, to be' euioyed. ihis permits the shirt to be laundried in the same manner as though the suspending means were absent.

lVhat is claimed is 4 in upper garment having on opposite sides sustaining means for a nether garment each sustaining means comgrising an inextensible band or tape in the form of a loop secured to the shoulder portion of the upper garment within the latter in surrounding spaced relation to a corresponding armhole. with the sides of the loop separate rom the upper garment and brought toether at substantially the waist line of the Jper garment and there united one to the other and to the upper garment, and pro *ided with a series of huttonholes extending n the direction of the longitudinal axis of he loop with each button hole opening hrough both the tape and the materialof he garment to receive a button fast to the nether garment.

in testimony, that 1 claim the foregoing as my own i have hereto afiijxed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE ALYAH N. UOPPEDGE.

tnesses:

Jenn ll. Smears, A Mrnns.

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